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Description: | Cast copper alloy strap fitting probably dating from the late medieval or early post medieval periods (1400-1650). The fitting is sub-rectangular in plan and profile and D shaped in cross section. It measures 51mm in length, 10.8mm width and is 5.9mm thick. The fitting weighs 7.55 grams.
The fitting consists of a single length of cast metal which has been bent back upon itself and secured with an iron rivet to form a loop. This loop has been divided into two pieces with an iron bar spanning the gap between them. The iron bar does not survive. The front face of the fitting is decorated with a cast design. Much of the detail of this has been lost through corrosion and abrasion. The only cast decorative element to survive is a series of cast ridges at the top of the strap fitting. The rear of the mount is flat and undecorated. There is a short broken iron rivet positioned on the upper edges of the fitting. This lug would have been passed through a pierced hole in a leather strap (or such like) and then bent over to secure the mount. The rivet is sub-oval in shape and cross section.
The strap fitting is of a green mid grey colour with an uneven abraded and corroded patina that covers all surfaces. There are also large amounts of mid-orange brown coloured corrosion from the iron rivets present on many areas of the strap fitting. The fitting has become asymmetrical in the plough soil as a result of abrasion | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1400
1650 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Peter Reavill | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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